NEWSLETTERS

May-June 2008

The Write Stuff
Online Newsletter of Word Journeys

UPCOMING EVENTS
• May 27: The Final Page: Editing Your Work, Marion, KY
• June 1: Official Release of Poetry Through The Ages
• July 1: Official Release of The River-Fed Stone
• Early Aug.: Reading, Borders Books, Highland, IN
• Sept. 13: Midwest Book Fair, Evansville, IN
• Sept. 27-28: Wrangling With Writing Conference, Tucson, AZ
• Oct. 21: Featured Reader, Third Tuesday, Owensboro, KY
• Oct. 23: Featured Reader, Barnes & Noble, Evansville, IN

New Blogs Launch!
We’ve launched two new blogs for your reading, writing and learning enjoyment:

Bobyehling.wordpress.com: Regular stories on aspects of the art, craft and business of writing, featuring authors, artists, musicians and poets, reviews of books, coverages of major literary events and more.

366writing.wordpress.com: To stretch your writing muscles, a new daily blog of dynamic exercises for writers of all abilities and genres, as well as artists, musicians, healing arts professionals, educators and others who use writing in their professions. The exercises are informed by our upcoming book, The Write Time.

Check out our blogs—and post your comments, so we can get back to you!

New Releases
Robert Yehling’s first book in 18 months, The River-Fed Stone, will be published by Aisling Press on July 1. A vigorous promotional campaign and book signing and reading schedule will follow. The River-Fed Stone includes 144 pages of all-new poetry and essays, wrapped around the theme of a wisdom-gathering journey through life.
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Table of Contents
Sample Poems

Poetry Through The Ages
Launching on June 1 is Poetry Through The Ages, a 256-page web exhibit featuring the dynamics of poetry’s 4,500-year history. Written by Robert Yehling and produced by the Institute of Dynamic Educational Advancement, the exhibit features hundreds of classic and current poets, along with poetic forms dating back to Sumeria and forward to include SpicyNodes, the meshing of downloadable technology with 3D poetry.

To see Poetry Through The Ages

Investing in the GO Zone
Authored by best-selling Tonja Demoff, with writing assistance from Robert Yehling, Investing in the GO Zone breaks down one of the greatest real estate investment opportunities available—the Gulf Coasts of Mississippi and Alabama. Tonja is assisting investors with home purchases while coordinating much of the real estate investment in the region.

To order Investing in the GO Zone

Freedom of Vision: Voices from Behind Prison Walls
Edited by Stephen B. Gladish and Robert Yehling

Freedom of Vision’s new and improved version was published by Aisling Press earlier in 2008. We’re launching a vigorous summer marketing and publicity campaign to showcase the exceptional content, which features 125 poems and essays. Contributors include American Book Award winner Jimmy Santiago Baca, Burroughs Award winner Ken Lamberton, renowned prison poet Gordon Grilz, and Stephen B. Gladish, who taught creative writing in the Arizona Department of Corrections for 20 years and masterminded the book.

To order Freedom of Vision

From Our Clients & Friends
What I Thought I Knew, by Barbara Stahura
After writing essays and magazine articles for 15 years, Barbara Stahura breaks out with this outstanding debut essay collection, wrapped around the experiences she had following the near-fatal motorcycle accident suffered by her husband, Ken Willingham. The essays spell out what happens when everything we thought we knew can no longer inform or guide us … and it’s time to gather more wisdom and try another approach, no matter at what station we are in life. Releasing in July.

The Uncommon Path, by Mick Quinn
Mick Quinn has traveled through Europe and the U.S. for years, presenting another way to live—one that produces power and grace in whatever we do. We assisted him with his book proposal, which was picked up in 2006 by Corona Borealis, one of Spain’s top publishers. Now, noted spiritual living publisher O Books has agreed to publish The Uncommon Path in English. Look for it in 2009.

In Other News…
Poetry Reading on KXCI Radio

Robert Yehling will read his poetry on KXCI Community Radio in Tucson, Ariz. The 15-minute reading, hosted by Ron Cipriani, will focus on The River-Fed Stone, but also include pieces from Yehling’s other collections. Airing dates will be announced on www.wordjourneys.com. The reading will also be archived on www.kxci.org.

To order books featured in reading

Wrangling With Writing Conference Coming Sept. 27-28
More than 300 writers from the southwestern U.S. are expected to join 40 editors, literary agents, publishers and authors at the 33rd annual Wrangling With Writing Conference in Tucson. This conference, one of the best-priced in the nation, has always produced memorable workshops and a large number of book contracts. At the conference, Robert Yehling will conduct editor and author’s representative interviews with writers and present two workshops: “Self-Help Writing That Changes Lives,” and “After The Draft: Simple Self-Editing Tips.”

For discounted early registration and information

• Read “Meet Me At The Bar: Working A Writer’s Conference”

Quote of the Month
“No one can imitate when you write of the particular, because no others have experienced exactly the same thing.” — Goethe

Exercise of the Month
Writing Your Most Delicious Secret

What is the most delicious secret you’ve ever personally experienced? What within you that are so tantalizing, so unforgettable, so dangerous or so wild that it would blow the doors off everyone you know if revealed? And why is the secret so delicious that you return to its memory over and over? Write out your most delicious secret, using food metaphors when describing it so you can taste, eat or drink from it over and over again. Draw it fully out of the sanctum of your heart and body, spreading some of its magic and wonder into the other areas of your writing and your life.
—From The Write Time, by Robert Yehling

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